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Kjell Johansson (5 October 1946 – 24 October 2011) was a male Ex-table tennis champ Kjell Johansson dies at 65
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Kjell 1946 births 2011 deaths Swedish male table tennis players Sportspeople from Eskilstuna 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish people
Kjell Johansson (5 October 1946 – 24 October 2011) was a male table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from Sweden.
From 1963 to 1977 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the European Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...
. He won the 1965 Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. He was a native of Eskilstuna
Eskilstuna () is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 67,359 inhabitants in 2015, with a total population of 100,092 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality (2014). Eskilstuna h ...
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He also won three English Open
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titles.
Johansson was called ''Hammaren'', which means "The Hammer" in Swedish
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, because of his hard forehand. His brother Christer Johansson was also an international table tennis player.
Johansson died in Eksjö
Eksjö is a locality and the seat of Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden, with 9,701 inhabitants in 2010.
History
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on 24 October 2011, aged 65, following a long illness./ref>
See also
*List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Kjell 1946 births 2011 deaths Swedish male table tennis players Sportspeople from Eskilstuna 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish people